As I sit looking out of a window of the buildingI wish I did not have to write the instructional manual on the uses...of a new metal.I look down into the street and see people, each walking with aninner peace,And envy them--they are so far away from me!Not one of them has to worry about getting out this manual onscheduleLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agon...ies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are th...e sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilisation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be servic...eable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

--The man who has stood on the Acropolis,And looked down over Attica; or he...Who has sailed where picturesque Constantinople is,Or seen Timbuctoo, or hath taken teaIn small-eyed China's crockery-ware metropolis,Or sat amidst the bricks of Nineveh,May not think much of London's first appearance--But ask him what he thinks of it a year hence!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »